In the book Breaking the Habit of Being You, author Joe Dispenza argues that we are addicted to our stress responses. He claims that those responses give us a rush that can feel awakening, however, it can also cause us to be addicted to our problems. A lot of these addictive behaviors can eventually turn into an identity within itself, causing a person to seek out specific problem to receive the right stress response that fits that makes up their identity.

To solve the problem of identity and addicted stress responses, a person can try and ask themselves questions such as “How would I want to be Percieved?”. Once that is establish, you can think of the different ways you can achieve that goal without immediately reacting to the physical environment. ‘ This books aims to help the reader take control of creating change in their lives. Joe Dispenza believes that meditation, done correctly, can be the primary tool to help with rewiring our neuro networks to arrive at our desired outcomes. For example, when doing meditation correctly, which he discusses in part III of his book, a person is able to essentially see themselves for who they are, including patterns that might be architypical in a person’s life.

Meditation can be a tool for identifying how we feel vs how we think. Feeling is for the body while thinking is for the brain. Meditation can help guide us to communicate thoughts to feelings and feelings to thoughts for a common goal such as happiness. Once we are able to communicate thoughts and feelings, you can establish a baseline for your emotions that is independant from the immediate environment. Ultimately, you will change your reality far as who you are as a person. Our brains have shown that new neuro pathways are created all the time.

key concepts

The quantum self

One of the points that Joe spends a chapter talking about is the quantum self. It has to do with how our observations interact with the world around us. He believes, if we train ourselves